What is another word for somnambulist?

Pronunciation: [sˈɒmnɐmbjˌʊlɪst] (IPA)

Somnambulist is a word that refers to someone who sleepwalks. However, there are various synonyms for this word, including noctambulist, somnambule, sleepwalker, and sleepwalker-in-the-night. These words are often used interchangeably depending on the context of the situation. While somnambulist is the technical term for sleepwalking, sleepwalker is the most commonly used term. Noctambulist can be used to describe someone who walks at night, whether they are sleepwalking or not. Somnambule refers to someone who walks during sleep and is also commonly used. All in all, these synonyms provide a rich diversity of options for people looking to describe someone who walks while sleeping.

What are the hypernyms for Somnambulist?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Somnambulist

"Pretty good for a somnambulist," he conceded when I had done.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
She steals about like a somnambulist.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann
I am-I am a somnambulist.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Somnambulist

  • A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The spirit acquires an increase of knowledge and experience in each of his corporeal existences. He loses sight of part of these gains during his reincarnation in matter, which is too gross to allow of his remembering them in their entirety; but he remembers them as a spirit. It is thus that some somnambulists give evidence of possessing knowledge beyond their present degree of instruction, and even of their apparent intellectual capacity. The intellectual and scientific inferiority of a somnambulist in his waking state, therefore, proves nothing against his possession of the knowledge he may display in his lucid state. According to the circumstances of the moment and the aim proposed, he may draw this knowledge from the stores of his own experience, from his clairvoyant perception of things actually occurring, or from the counsels which he receives from other spirits; but, in proportion as his own spirit is more or less advanced, he will make his statements more or less correctly.
    Allan Kardec
  • Libertarians used to tell us that ‘the love of freedom is the strongest of political motives,’ but recent events have taught us the extravagance of this opinion. The ‘herd-instinct’ and the yearning for paternal authority are often as strong. Indeed the tendency of men to gang up under a leader and submit to his will is of all political traits the best attested by history. It has been so shockingly exemplified in modem times that only a somnambulist could ignore it in trying to build, or defend, a free society. His first concern should be to make sure that no one gang or group-neither the proletariat, nor the capitalists, nor the landowners, no the bankers, nor the army, nor the church, nor the government itself-shall have exclusive power.
    Max Eastman

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